Cerro Gordo County IA Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Henry Thomas 1939
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Globe-Globe Gazette Apr. 1939
From the Mason City (Cerro Gordo, Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Wednesday, April 5, 1939,
p. 20, col. 5:

Negro Who Ran Away From Slavery as Lad, Is Dead in Waterloo

WATERLOO, (AP) - Henry Thomas Smith, 87 year old Negro, who ran away from
slavery as a lad of 11 to become a messenger boy for the Union army during the
Civil war, died here Tuesday afternoon.

Born on a plantation near Cynthiana, Ky., Smith bolted to freedom in 1862, after
his master had completed arrangements to sell him and three of his 12 brothers
and sisters.

Going to live with an uncle in Paris, Ky., he assumed his messenger's job with
the fourteenth Kentucky cavalry soon after, and went through major engagements
at Cumberland Gap, Fort Sumter, and the second battle of Bull Run.


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